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bknitram

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From: South Carolina

Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 12

Compiz Fusion and Emerald Not Working

I built compiz fusion (all required stuff) and emerald-git from the unsupported repo.

Compiz loads fine, with no problems.

But when I try to start emerald I get:

[martin@mlaptop ~] emerald --replace

(emerald:18505): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

And gtk-window-decorator (came with compiz-git):

[martin@mlaptop ~] gtk-window-decorator --replace

(gtk-window-decorator:18506): Gdk-WARNING **: Using Cairo rendering requires the drawable argument to
have a specified colormap. All windows have a colormap,
however, pixmaps only have colormap by default if they
were created with a non-NULL window argument. Otherwise
a colormap must be set on them with gdk_drawable_set_colormap

(gtk-window-decorator:18506): Gdk-CRITICAL **: gdk_cairo_create: assertion `GDK_IS_DRAWABLE (drawable)' failed
Segmentation fault

I've tried looking on google and asking on #opencomposition in freenode irc.

matiit

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From: Poland

Registered: 2007-04-13

Posts: 141

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Re: Compiz Fusion and Emerald Not Working

I'm running compiz-manager and all is fine

aRcHaTe

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Registered: 2006-10-24

Posts: 646

Re: Compiz Fusion and Emerald Not Working

is compiz-fusion going to it arch unstable? there are allready stable version...compiz-git isnt working

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KCE

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From: SoCal

Registered: 2007-06-26

Posts: 41

Re: Compiz Fusion and Emerald Not Working

I think you just need to start compiz-fusion because it also loads emerald manager, well what I know with the non git version.

From http://bbs.archlinux.org/post.php?tid=34028&qid=261815

I finally got XFCE4 starting properly with Compiz-Fusion

The steps I followed (fairly close to the wiki's Beryl entry.. wish I'd known that beforehand =P ):

(i) Add nesl247's repo to your /etc/pacman.conf :

[compiz-fusion]
Server = http://arch.nesl247.org/compiz-fusion/i686

(ii) Install compiz-fusion and extras:

$ su
$ pacman -S compiz-fusion compiz-fusion-extra

(iii) Edit /etc/xdg/xfce4-session/xfce4-session.rc

Replace:

Client0_Command=xfwm4

With:

Client0_Command=compiz-manager   # this will run Emerald as well, so no need to run separately =)

(iv) Your ~/.xinitrc entry should read:

exec dbus-launch --exit-with-session --auto-syntax startxfce4

(v) Remove any old sessions you've saved to avoid problems

rm -r ~/.cache/sessions/*

Easy, huh?

Edit: By the way, you should disable session saving (Right-click desktop -> Settings -> Sessions and Startup Settings -> uncheck 'Automatically save...', then upon 'Quit' make sure you uncheck the 'Save session' box); it gums up the works with Compiz, seemingly.

- Dave

Last edited by KCE (2007-06-29 21:28:02)

bknitram

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From: South Carolina

Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 12

Re: Compiz Fusion and Emerald Not Working

I tried using that repository.

Since I run gnome I tried to run compiz-manager, but it still failed.

Mikko777

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From: Suomi, Finland

Registered: 2006-10-30

Posts: 837

Re: Compiz Fusion and Emerald Not Working

I tried using that repository.

Since I run gnome I tried to run compiz-manager, but it still failed.

Tried compiz-manager -fi or was it -if?

plain compiz-manager failed for me too at first, has to create the initial configuration first.

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bknitram

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From: South Carolina

Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 12

Re: Compiz Fusion and Emerald Not Working

The --help option said that it is -fi, so I tried that.

It ran, but still no decorator.

I tried the two commands in my first post, but they both still had the same problem

TripleE

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From: Houston, TX

Registered: 2006-10-10

Posts: 64

Re: Compiz Fusion and Emerald Not Working

With the latest updates, try:

$ fusion-icon

I have also started a wiki/howto (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Compiz_fusion) that may help.

Last edited by TripleE (2007-07-05 06:57:49)

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